All posts tagged iPad 2

A new report from J.P. Morgan warns of a possible over-build of tablets in 2011, predicting that some tablets won’t sell well against the iPad 2. We discuss with Dan Gallagher on digits, and why this could be worse for component suppliers than tablet makers. Read More »

Consumer demand for Apple’s iPad and other tablet computers is sapping demand for traditional laptop computers, research firm Gartner said as it reduced its forecast for global PC shipments. Ben Worthen reports on Digits Read More »

Don’t feel cheated if you bought an iPad just before Apple dropped the price by $100 on Wednesday. The consumer electronics giant’s policy entitles you to the same discount. The policy, which is posted on Apple’s website, applies to any product that has been permanently reduced in price. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company put the first generation of iPads on sale to clear out its inventory ahead of the March 11 debut of its successor, the iPad 2. Read More »

Apple Inc.’s iBookstore is now selling digital titles by Random House authors John Grisham, Stieg Larsson, and Laura Hillenbrand. On Tuesday, Random House Inc., a unit of Bertelsmann AG, switched to the “agency” pricing model championed by Apple when it launched the iPad tablet last year. Random House had been the only one of the six major U.S. publishers not to adopt the agency model for its digital titles in the U.S. As such, Random House’s e-books were available for purchase only from retail bookstore apps on the iPad, but not from the iBookstore directly. Read More »

Apple’s “Joint Venture” program, a package of support services for small businesses rolling out iPads and other Apple computing products to their workforce, is one approach Apple is using to lure business users. Another, less direct approach, is through the burgeoning universe of business-focused apps created by third parties. Unlike consumer-oriented apps, they are nowhere near the main driver of iPad adoption, but their number is “growing quickly,” said Jan Woodcock, an analyst with Wipro Consulting Services. There are already thousands of business-oriented apps available, with probably “a few hundred ‘high use’ mobile enterprise applications,” he added. Read More »

As is usual with any product unveiling that has the name Apple attached to it this decade, the unveiling of the iPad 2 this afternoon in San Francisco has been the subject of intense and frothy speculation. As the Journal reported almost a month ago, the iPad 2 is already in production, but that hasn’t stopped people from guessing about when the device will actually become available, with estimates ranging from June to later this week. Read More »

Wednesday’s Apple event is widely expected to bring an announcement of a new iPad. MarketWatch’s Dan Gallagher and Peter Kafka discuss the economics of Apple’s iPad business, how it could surpass Mac sales, and how a new iPad could fare in the market.